SEF 100 percent owned by the NZZ media group
The two founders of the Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), Stefan Linder and Peter Stähli, will sell their shares in July 2016 to the NZZ Media Group, which will thereby become the sole owner of the Swiss economic conference.
For five years, the NZZ Media Group has successively increased its company shares in the Swiss Economic Forum (SEF). In July 2016, it will take over the last block of shares from the two SEF founders Stefan Linder and Peter Stähli. Interforum Holding AG, to which the SEF belongs, will thus become fully owned by the NZZ media group. Stefan Linder and Peter Stähli will relinquish their mandates as delegates of the Board of Directors, but will remain committed to various growth projects. The two founders already handed over operational management to the then Head of Corporate Development and current CEO Dominik Isler in June 2015.
"Stefan Linder and Peter Stähli have developed the SEF into the most important Swiss business conference and built up other successful conference formats. I am pleased that they will remain associated with the NZZ family in various projects," said Veit V. Dengler, CEO NZZ Media Group, in a statement. "The new management team has established itself well, will continue to lead the company in the entrepreneurial spirit of its founders and will expand the conference business as an important pillar of the NZZ Media Group." The headquarters of Swiss Economic Forum AG will remain in Gwatt near Thun. The Swiss Economic Forum will continue to be held in Interlaken. The next SEF will take place from June 9 to 10, 2016.
